Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and...

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where...

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show...

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this — I suppose it...

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his...

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...

The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you’re networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination… or yours.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

I spend a lot of time imagining things – in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

L’homme n’est capable de maîtriser que ce qu’il peut concevoir. D’autre part, il ne peut concevoir que ce qu’il est possible d’exprimer; tout ce qui est inexprimable est également inconcevable. En explorant les étapes successives...

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

Reading not only soothes your soul but takes you through a garden of imagination

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as life which you should never forget to live and enjoy.

A man who admits that dwarfs and giants and talking beasts and witches are still dear to him in his 50-third year is now less likely to be praised for his perennial youth than scorned...

Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it...

segala yang ada di muka bumi sudah merupakan pembagian yang berlainan namun merupakan pasangan

Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination.

I can dream, though – can’t I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

Katie began to draw in the secrecy of her room, in anger at first, using her mother’s pencils and whatever paper she could find. Sometimes, she had to steal from Nader’s study to replenish her...

I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course...

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,…is finally the most inward of acts–so...

Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was...

In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into...

Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination.

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile ‘eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

Resta-nos esclarecer a parte que nesse golfo fantástico cabe ao imaginário indireto, ou seja, o conjunto de imagens que a cultura nos fornece, seja ela cultura de massa ou outra forma de tradição. Esta questão...

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo’s anger at being found, or...

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”[Interview in The Independent,...

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

I didn’t know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was trapped. I knew that I could never look back. At this point in my life,...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We...

They all learned how to swim.

Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow